Can meteors be observed from the Moon?

A bright or not so elongated flash in the night sky is a meteor, a “shooting star”. The phenomenon occurs when any small particles, due to aerodynamic heating from passing through layers of air, burn up in the atmosphere. This process requires a sufficiently dense atmosphere, for example, an earthly one. Although, its composition is not important. The moon, although it has an atmosphere, is approximately ten trillion times more rarefied than the earth’s. Consequently, the particles that fly into it (for example, fragments of comets and asteroids) simply do not burn up. Their flight leaves no visible trace.